Camera: a mix of Canada’s best filmmakers and top critics at the Toronto Film Critics Association Awards
Camera: a mix of Canada’s best filmmakers and top critics at the Toronto Film Critics Association Awards
By Fraser Abe | February 29, 2012
By Fraser Abe | 02/29/2012
By Fraser Abe | Photography by George Pimentel
January 10, The Carlu. The annual Toronto Film Critics Association Awards mixes Canada’s best filmmakers and critics—which can be a great opportunity for a little payback. David Cronenberg, whose latest film, A Dangerous Method , is nominated for 11 Genies, took advantage of his turn at the presenter’s mic to characterize critics as a “scruffy lot”; TFCA president and Maclean ’s film critic Brian Johnson volleyed back: “Without us, how would filmmakers know why their films stink?” Cronenberg didn’t win Best Canadian Film (that honour went to Philippe Falardeau’s Monsieur Lazhar ), but he easily won best anecdote of the night—and proved his chops in the art of self-criticism. He described one of his early directing efforts, 1975’s Shivers , which included a soft-core scene featuring sex on a swing. In his eagerness to impress, he admitted, he may have captured the action from “a few too many angles.”
119886 Filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallée (Image: George Pimental) Camera: T.O. Film Critics Bash Camera: T.O. Film Critics Bash https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/mar12Camera1-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/mar12Camera1.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/mar12Camera1.jpg 460 620 [] https://torontolife.com/city/camera-film-critics-bash/slide/mar12camera1/ mar12camera1 0 0
(Image: George Pimental)
119887 <em>A Dangerous Method’</em>s Sarah Gadon (Image: George Pimental) Camera: T.O. Film Critics Bash Camera: T.O. Film Critics Bash https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/mar12Camera2-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/mar12Camera2.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/mar12Camera2.jpg 460 620 [] https://torontolife.com/city/camera-film-critics-bash/slide/mar12camera2/ mar12camera2 0 0
(Image: George Pimental)
119888 Directors Clement Virgo and David Cronenberg (Image: George Pimental) Camera: T.O. Film Critics Bash Camera: T.O. Film Critics Bash https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/mar12Camera3-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/mar12Camera3.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/mar12Camera3.jpg 624 500 [] https://torontolife.com/city/camera-film-critics-bash/slide/mar12camera3/ mar12camera3 0 0
(Image: George Pimental)
119889 The inimitable Barbara Amiel (Image: George Pimental) Camera: T.O. Film Critics Bash Camera: T.O. Film Critics Bash https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/mar12Camera4-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/mar12Camera4.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/mar12Camera4.jpg 460 620 [] https://torontolife.com/city/camera-film-critics-bash/slide/mar12camera4/ mar12camera4 0 0
(Image: George Pimental)
119890 Ex–telefilm boss Wayne Clarkson (Image: George Pimental) Camera: T.O. Film Critics Bash Camera: T.O. Film Critics Bash https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/mar12Camera5-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/mar12Camera5.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/mar12Camera5.jpg 460 620 [] https://torontolife.com/city/camera-film-critics-bash/slide/mar12camera5/ mar12camera5 0 0
(Image: George Pimental)
119891 Comedian Andrea Martin (Image: George Pimental) Camera: T.O. Film Critics Bash Camera: T.O. Film Critics Bash https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/mar12Camera6-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/mar12Camera6.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/mar12Camera6.jpg 460 620 [] https://torontolife.com/city/camera-film-critics-bash/slide/mar12camera6/ mar12camera6 0 0
(Image: George Pimental)
119892 Reality TV evil genius Kenny Hotz (Image: George Pimental) Camera: T.O. Film Critics Bash Camera: T.O. Film Critics Bash https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/mar12Camera7-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/mar12Camera7.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/mar12Camera7.jpg 460 620 [] https://torontolife.com/city/camera-film-critics-bash/slide/mar12camera7/ mar12camera7 0 0
(Image: George Pimental)
119893 Director Joe Cornish and TFCA president Brian Johnson (Image: George Pimental) Camera: T.O. Film Critics Bash Camera: T.O. Film Critics Bash https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/mar12Camera8-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/mar12Camera8.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/mar12Camera8.jpg 624 500 [] https://torontolife.com/city/camera-film-critics-bash/slide/mar12camera8/ mar12camera8 0 0
(Image: George Pimental)
119894 TIFF bigwig Cameron Bailey (Image: George Pimental) Camera: T.O. Film Critics Bash Camera: T.O. Film Critics Bash https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/mar12Camera9-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/mar12Camera9.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/mar12Camera9.jpg 460 620 [] https://torontolife.com/city/camera-film-critics-bash/slide/mar12camera9/ mar12camera9 0 0
(Image: George Pimental)